{"id":716,"date":"2011-06-23T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2011-06-23T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:12:03","slug":"crowns-tagin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2011\/06\/23\/crowns-tagin\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowns (Tagin)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The (usually) three special zayin<\/em>-like flourishes placed on some letters of the Torah, Tephillin<\/em>, and Mezuzot<\/em> that are thick on top and have a thin line extending downwards. The\u00a0 letter that receive the\u00a0crowns\u00a0are \u05e9\u05e2\u05d8\u05e0\u05d6\u05d2\u05e6 (see Menachot<\/em> 29b) as well as the final \u05df and \u05e5 (see Rashi there).<\/p>\n

The Machzor<\/em> Vitry<\/em> (674\u201383) includes a copy of\u00a0Sefer Tagin<\/em>\u00a0which addresses the\u00a0tagin<\/em>\u00a0that appeared on the 12 stones which Moshe first set up in the Jordan River and that had been transferred later on to Gilgal<\/em> (see Joshuah 4:9, 20) on which were inscribed the Torah text with the required tagin<\/em>\u00a0(see Ramban to Deuteronomy 27:8).<\/p>\n

The point once again is that despite the fact that the trope, vowels, and crowns flesh-out the letters, add nuance and special import to them, enrich one\u2019s reading of them, and despite the fact that each completes an action appropriate to it<\/strong>, they\u2019re not essential, as the essential acts come about through the letters<\/strong> themselves as we indicated above.<\/p>\n

(c) 2011 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org<\/a><\/p>\n

———————————————————-<\/p>\n

AT LONG LAST! Rabbi Feldman’s translation of Maimonides’ “Eight Chapters” is available here<\/a> at a discount.<\/p>\n

You can still purchase a copy of Rabbi Feldman’s translation of “The Gates of Repentance” here<\/a> at a discount as well.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Yaakov Feldman has also translated and commented upon “The Path of the Just” and “The Duties of the Heart” (Jason Aronson Publishers).<\/p>\n

Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes on www.torah.org entitled “Spiritual Excellence<\/a>\u201d and \u201cRamchal<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The (usually) three special zayin-like flourishes placed on some letters of the Torah, Tephillin, and Mezuzot that are thick on top and have a thin line extending downwards. The\u00a0 letter that receive the\u00a0crowns\u00a0are \u05e9\u05e2\u05d8\u05e0\u05d6\u05d2\u05e6 (see Menachot 29b) as well as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}